"The project will continue until the end of the year when winter hibernation will start and the Mediterranean chameleon digs itself into the ground in order to hibernate during the winter season"...I wish they had provided photos of this...
https://archipelago.gr/en/chameleon-distribution-monitoring-samos-island-september-2017/
"Common Chameleons hibernate in the winter months when food is scarce. They dig themselves small burrows in the ground"...
http://bardofelysays.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-common-chameleon-lives-in-algarve.html
"Bradypodion thamnobates (Measey et al. 2014), Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Böhme 1981) or Rhampho- leon marshalli (Broadley 1971). Here we report on two Calumma species found hidden and inactive in tropical eastern Madagascar, representing possible cases of hi- bernation"...
https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/spix39_2_17.pdf
https://archipelago.gr/en/chameleon-distribution-monitoring-samos-island-september-2017/
"Common Chameleons hibernate in the winter months when food is scarce. They dig themselves small burrows in the ground"...
http://bardofelysays.blogspot.com/2014/12/the-common-chameleon-lives-in-algarve.html
"Bradypodion thamnobates (Measey et al. 2014), Chamaeleo chamaeleon (Böhme 1981) or Rhampho- leon marshalli (Broadley 1971). Here we report on two Calumma species found hidden and inactive in tropical eastern Madagascar, representing possible cases of hi- bernation"...
https://pfeil-verlag.de/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/spix39_2_17.pdf
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